B & W lesson 7

[craigpauli]

I thought for a first go at trying things for this lesson I would try something from my night shots last night. Would this fit more high key or low key or in the middle.
http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/szSRKjbm-Q6GwIKL6yg49w103411

[mingkywingky]

Hi Craig,

Beautiful shot!
I'm not an expert of black and white photography, therefore, when I do BW, I never think it to be high key or low key. In my mind, that kind consideration, would work only in studio photography :o
It's how to convert the color picture into B&W that matters for me.

Something that I learned from lesson 7 that we do not just convert our color photo to grayscale. This process usually produces dull images. We have to fine-tune each individual channel's contrast and brightness, before converting the image to black and white.

Here is my version of BW of your picture, I hope you don't mind. It's not like mine is better than yours;)

Tenny:)
Canon Rebel T1i

[craigpauli]

Thank you Tenny and I didn't mind you doing a edit, just that in the homework we have to take both high and low key and a bw architecture shot. I was trying to keep all the contrasts fairly even so there wasn't much contrast to find out whether it would fit in with the low key B&W or whether I was wrong. To me the example in the lesson is a highly exposed shot then converted to bw which would keep the contrast level very low.
Cheers.

[craigpauli]

Another attempt at converting to b&w...
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs672.snc4/61284_484558826872_705156872_6729670_6148220_n.jpg